A convicted terrorist representing the Fatah party, which is headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, was elected mayor of Hebron in Sunday’s local elections, The Times of Israel reported.
Palestinians in Hebron just elected this man, who murdered 6 Israelis, to be their mayor. Only in the PA can murderers hold public office. pic.twitter.com/ffZ3slvJSb
— Ofir Gendelman (@ofirgendelman) May 14, 2017
Tayseer Abu Sneinah, who won the election to head the council of the West Bank’s largest city, was one of four men who attacked a group of yeshiva students in Hebron in May 1980, killing six and wounding twenty others.
All four attackers were convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but were released in prisoner exchanges within the decade.
When Fatah announced Abu Sneinah’s nomination in September of last year, it described him on its official Facebook page as “one of the heroes of the Daboya operation on May 2, 1980.”
That a terrorist was “elected mayor of Hebron is a clear message from the Palestinians [in favor] of terrorist attacks against Israel,” Likud minister Ayoob Kara tweeted.
Despite running unopposed across the West Bank, Fatah’s performed poorly in the elections.
Abbas, who won a four-year presidential term in 2005, has never stood for reelection. The Palestinians have held no elections covering both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since the legislative elections in 2006, which Hamas won. A year later, the terror group launched a coup and violently took control of Gaza from Fatah.
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